"Success is how you collect your minutes. You……" — Norman Lear
"Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn't equate... Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don't have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don't mean anything."
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Norman Lear
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34 Quotes by Norman Lear
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The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.
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There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.
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TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.
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Success is how you collect your minutes.
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I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.
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But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of…
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